This is the book cover. I read this novel before I watched it. I was bliss that I read before I watch it. Because while watching the movie my mind kept contemplating the scene coming next. Movie played for 126 minutes ( however in Malaysia I supposed it's only 120 minutes as some kissing and make out scene had been censored), and I had no idea why time passed so fast! I enjoyed the whole movie from the beginning till the end.
If I were to use one sentence to conclude the movie, it would be:
"HAZEL GRACE LANCASTER IS SO HAZEL AND AUGUSTUS WATERS IS SO GUS!"
Told you I read the book. If you haven't watch the movie yet (please tell me that you are going to watch it SOON!), and you are lazy to read the whole book, YESHI have this little summary for you.
This is vaguely a simple summary so please don't expect to know the whole book in details by just reading this. Trust me, as you won't regret to grab this book from bookstore and regurgitated it for few times (yea I wanted to reread it). You will be mesmerized by the humor in their conversation and overwhelmed with the emotion they had, just by reading WORDS.
Okay, Let's START!
Let's study about the title perhaps. (Thanks to Dr Thomas now I study every words in novel, thinking that every words the writer used has its implied meaning. *clapclapclap)
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS.
Why is fault? Maybe because both of them are cancer patient. This is the fault in them, they are somehow the side effect that goddamn cancer thing.
Stars? Not really have a clear cut thought at why it's stars? John Green said that drinking champagne is like drinking STARS.
FOUND IT IN WIKIPEDIA
"The title is inspired from Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
retrieved on 20 June 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16 year-old girl. She has thyroid cancer when she was 13, undergo treatment, chemo and etc, finally the cancerous cells attack her lungs and in order to breathe, she needs to carry along an oxygen tank everywhere.
Augustus Waters, a 17 year-old boy, he has osteosarcoma and therefore he has his leg amputated. He is a very cheerful person, in spite of having a prosthetic leg.
After they first encounter in the Support Group, Gus immediately dated Hazel to his house to watch a movie- "V for Vendetta". They exchanged number and they start to date each other. One of their favorite spot is a playground near to a cemetery, Funky Bones. It's a place with huge skeletons on grass and kids climb and jump across those "skeletons".
Hazel's greatest interest is reading. And her all time favorite is a book named " An Imperial Affliction" written by Peter Van Houten. It's a book about a girl Anna who has cancer, the thing happened between her and her family. However this book ended in an awkward way, ended literally in the middle of a sentence. She likes this book so much as she thinks that this book depicts the life of a cancer patient so well that she desperately wants to know the ending, what happen to the other characters in the story.
Of course she tells Gus about this book and wants Gus to read it too.
When your crush asked you to read a book, you cant think of a reason not reading it as it can somehow impress your crush.
So,
Gus read it and reread it and he as well wants to know what happen to the other characters.
Gus writes email to Peter Van Houten and he invited both of them to visit him in Amsterdam. Cause he is afraid that telling them the ending of the book through black and white may have resulted in the exposure of a sequel. So Peter offers a meet up. ( However in the later of the story Peter claimed that it's just a polite reply, he actually doesn't mean to ask them for meet up in Amsterdam)
There are a few important scenes happened in Amsterdam:
1. They have a very romantic dinner in a restaurant, Oranjee.
2. They meet Peter Van Houten and they are so DISAPPOINTED and UPSET when they realised that Peter is actually a drunkard who insult them lot.
3. However they walk around Amsterdam after meeting the rascal Peter. They somehow Level-Up their relationship here (if you get what I mean by Level-up)
4. Gus tells Hazel that he has ache in his thigh before this Amsterdam trip therefore he went for PET scan and he LIT UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE, HIS LUNGS, KIDNEY, EVERYWHERE.
They return to Indianapolis, Gus gets sickened and all those treatments and chemo started.
Gus's humor slowly fade off. He wants to be special, he wants to do something big that may publish in newspaper and everyone will remember him. But now he is sitting in a wheelchair, shrinking, dying off just like that.
Hazel couldn't agree of that. She thinks that Gus is great in spite all of that and she will remember him for the rest of her life. He could be her universe.
Gus passed away after staying in ICU for 8 days. Hazel eulogizes him in his funeral. Surprisingly Peter attended the funeral too. He was there because Gus knew that he is dying and he hope that Peter could give Hazel an answer, what happen to the other characters in "AN IMPERIAL AFFLICTION".
But Hazel is too sad to know about that anymore.
She rejects Peter.
Later on she finds out that Gus wrote something when he was sick and he sent it to Peter.
She contact Peter and finds out that before Gus warded in ICU, he wrote his eulogy for Hazel and sent it to Peter hoping that Peter could amend it for him.
Gus hopes that he can give a eulogy speech in Hazel's funeral but he knows he have no more time for it.
Though Gus couldn't read it, Peter reply his email saying:
"NOTHING MUCH THAT I COULD ADD."
My summary might be so so so brief, I am not a good writer either.
Perhaps I should read for the second time and make some amendments afterwards.
Let's end this post with quote from The Fault in Our Stars.
“I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.”
